APS Salads,Isle of Wight,
United Kingdom

Our customers don’t just want British tomatoes in the summer, they also want them in the winter.

We are growing phenomenal

tomatoes right through the winter that taste as good as mid-summer ones.”

- Phil Pearson, Group Development Director, APS Salads

The challenge

Moving to year-round production of tomatoes presents a number of challenges. Pearson: “With the hybrid HPS/LED system, we couldn’t achieve consistent crops at an affordable cost, and we were also producing too much heat via HPS lighting in the winter.”

The right lighting

“The goal of APS Salads was to use 100% LED lighting, LED toplighting and LED interlighting, in order to:

Produce a constant high level of quality tomatoes

Improve crop consistency

Improve climate control in the greenhouse

“With the LEDs we can better control the crop balance because we have total control over the heating and lighting. It’s much easier to manage the temperature within the LED crop. We also have more flexibility in when we plant, because we can now apply high light levels even when the outside temperatures are high”, says Pearson.